1. Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto was an English actor.
16 Facts About Roger Delgado
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Roger Delgado played many roles on television, radio and in films, and had "a long history of playing minor villains" before becoming best known as the first actor to play the Master in Doctor Who.
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Roger Delgado did not live in the East End, but was brought up in Bedford Park in west London.
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Roger Delgado attended Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, a Roman Catholic secondary school in Holland Park, and the London School of Economics for a brief period, but did not complete his degree.
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Roger Delgado served in the Second World War with both the Leicestershire Regiment and the Royal Corps of Signals, attaining the rank of major.
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Roger Delgado worked extensively on the British stage, and on television, film and radio.
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Roger Delgado appeared in the BBC Television serial Quatermass II, the Powell and Pressburger wartime drama Battle of the River Plate, and came to wide popular attention in Britain when he played the duplicitous Spanish envoy Mendoza in the ITC Entertainment series, Sir Francis Drake, from 1961 to 1962, after which he was in much demand.
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Roger Delgado was frequently cast as a villain, appearing in many British action-adventure TV series by ITC, including Danger Man, The Saint, The Champions, and Randall and Hopkirk.
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Roger Delgado made a total of 16 guest appearances in ITC shows, the most of any actor, with his last completed role being ITC's The Zoo Gang.
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Roger Delgado appeared in The Avengers, The Power Game, and an ITV Play of the Week.
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Roger Delgado's films included The Terror of the Tongs, The Road to Hong Kong, The Mummy's Shroud and Antony and Cleopatra.
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Roger Delgado began work as The Master on Doctor Who in late 1970, his first broadcast appearance being in the January 1971 adventure Terror of the Autons.
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Roger Delgado married Kismet Shahani in 1957 and they remained together until his death in 1973.
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Roger Delgado was one of my greatest friends ever - a modest, lovable man with a ready wit and a fine sense of humour.
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Roger Delgado was killed, along with two Turkish film technicians, when the car in which he was travelling went off the road into a ravine.
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Jon Pertwee often remarked that Roger Delgado's death was one of the reasons he decided to leave Doctor Who the following year.